The British countryside just the way I love it: McDonald's, petrol stations, and cooling towers. ;-)

I believe those cooling towers were for a coal power plant, not a nuclear power plant. At least, that's what my mother claims.

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It was a bloody expensive trip. It's something worth taking once, just so you can say that you've been through the Channel Tunnel (Chunnel).

I was a little disappointed, as it was my only trip on a high-speed train, but the high-speed portion of the trip was mostly in a trench, so you didn't really get much of a sensation of speed.

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The McDonald's in Paris across the street from Gare du Nord station (which we travelled to by Eurostar train).

This was the first place in Paris that my brother and I visited on Bastille Day weekend in July 1997, and that particular McDonald's location really doesn't like it when you take a photograph of the menu, as though they've never seen Pulp Fiction and didn't know that I wanted to bring back visual proof that the Quarter Pounder is called "Le Royale" in France.

Also, the various McDonald's I ate at in Paris are the most crowded I've ever been to anywhere in the world, seriously! And it was 90% locals, too!

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Funny part is, my DVD of Beavis and Butt-Head do America doesn't have a French dub, even though I live in Canada and have visual proof that a French dub exists.

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A photo, taken on Avenue des Champs-Élysées on Bastille Day weekend in July 1997, at twilight.

Everything was all silver and blue in real life. I swear I haven't colour adjusted in this photo in any way, aside from the normal scanning corrections I do in Photoshop.

Even McDonald's Golden Arches don't appear to be their normal yellow colour.

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